Orphaned Wildlife Rehabilitation Society will care for eagle

Posted: Nov 2, 2012 11:21 AM PT

Last Updated: Nov 4, 2012 1:23 PM PT

This bald eagle was found swarmed by ravens on the Dease Lake School playground in nortwest B.C., on Wednesday. It will be flown to Vancouver and cared for at the Orphaned Wildlife Rehabilitation Society in Delta. (Dease Lake School)

A bald eagle will be flying — by plane — to Vancouver after being rescued from a congress of ravens on a school playground in northwest B.C.

Brent Daniel, the principal at Dease Lake School and a volunteer firefighter, found the bird Wednesday.

It was swarmed by a group of ravens, with a badly injured wing, he said.

LANGFORD, B.C. - A great blue heron glides overhead, effortlessly spreading its massive wings before gracefully landing on a nearby treetop high above the Goldstream River.

A bald eagle looks down at the shimmering river from its perch on a moss-covered branch of a western red cedar.

In the river, which in some parts is — maybe — 18 centimetres deep and two metres wide, salmon, 10 kilograms and larger, with their dorsal fins poking out of the water, wriggle, scoot and splash with all their might as they struggle against the current to spawning grounds upstream.

It's early fall and Mother Nature is putting on its annual West Coast salmon life cycle show ........